John Mason Neale was an Anglican minister in the nineteenth century: he was born on January 24, 1818 and died on August 6, 1866. For the Easter Season, Neale translated O filii et filiae, Rex coelestis, Rex gloriae from the Latin:. After attending Trinity College, Cambridge, Neale joined the Oxford Movement, founded by John Henry...
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And what of the Catholic laity of England? Their dedication to the Mass and the Catholic Church meant that they would be fined for not attending Church of England services, and as the fines increased, they could also be imprisoned and their property confiscated. There were some who did offer an outward compliance by...
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Henry VIII, after asserting his own supremacy over the Church in England and denying the authority of Pope, still attended the Catholic Mass celebrated by validly ordained priests. He defended the doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist as sternly as he did his claim to supremacy. On July 30, 1540,...
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The January 1, 2012 erection of an official Ordinariate in North America for Catholics from Anglican backgrounds can be celebrated by all Catholics who love liturgy. When Pope Benedict XVI established the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, he boldly hoped that Anglicans entering the full communion of the Catholic Church would maintain some of their liturgical, spiritual and...
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